Jack Webster and the 1963 Prison Riot at BC Pen

BC Penitentiary was a maximum-security federal prison that opened in 1878 and was plagued with riots throughout its 100-year life. There was the 1975 riot and hostage taking that resulted in the death of Mary Steinhauser, a 32-year-old social worker and one of 15 hostages shot when police stormed the prison. And long before, there was the 1934 riot when 78 prisoners refused to go to work unless they were paid.

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